Poor man .....

[Ann]

Just heard about this Olympic high jumper in Team GB Robbie Grabarz - what a case for changing his name by deed poll! Hope he didn't get ribbed at school - bless him. Do you know anyone with an embarrassing name?

[doctordb]

Russel sprout.

[sandyRoe]

Fanny Cradock had her cross to bear.

[Mosaic]

Discovered child named Beejay in local school. Oh dearie me.

[Frank97]

My friend is A Gay, which can't have been fun for him at school.

[chrissa1]

What about poor old Fanny Schmelling, Bradley Walsh's friend. Lol.

[doctordb]

depends on the school. ^^

[Cockneycarl]

Sandyroe could you please explain this as it seems to have been a joke name from the 60's-70's comedies and understand that fanny was a womans name as well as part of the anatomy but still don't understand the whole Fanny cradock thing.

Has it got a double meaning i don't know about?

[Mosaic]

Spose it does Doc, but this is a pretty literal kind of geographic area.

[Ann]

He is of Polish origin so maybe he grew up in Poland and wouldn't mean the same!

[cathfromsaron]

paul hall
mavis davies
mari parry

[Ann]

I was at school with a George George.

[doctordb]

Sorry mosaic, i was answering D9.

[Ann]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/.../0/athletics/17275758

[Frank97]

I've got an aunt, at least I think I still have, called Mavis Davis. :-)

[sandyRoe]

Fanny Cradock was a bit of a harridan and her husband, Johnny, seemed the typical hen-pecked spouse. At least that's how it looked on their television cookery programme
But, I agree, there's nothing innately funny about her name.

[Duncer]

There was a Ronald McDonald in North Belfast long before the ubiquitous cardboard burger chain arrived in the UK.

I was working in casualty one night when my pal Jim said, "I'll deal with this patient and you can get the next one". Thank goodness he did. Her name was Ms Cuntz and we were very immature at the time. Yes, even more so than now.

[Baldric]

Years back, I used to do Security on the gates of a large Industrial Complex, one of the regular service guys to visit the site, and, who was built like a brick outhouse was Mr. Wayne King.
It was sometimes difficult to keep a straight face when booking him in.

[craft1948]

I once tried to talk a Chinese gentleman called Mr Fuk, out of having his name listed in the telephone directory.

[sp1814]

Ann86

To make matters worse, he posed in the nude for a gay magazine last month. I genuinely thought that his name was a joke.

[chas2008]

we had a teacher called mr bateman, or behind his back 'masterbateman'